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Donald Trump isn’t just at the top of the Republican presidential polls, he’s also dominating the social-media conversation, new data make clear.

According to Facebook, Mr. Trump is easily the most-talked candidate of the 2016 election — and it’s been that way ever since he announced he was running for the White House on June 16. In the past 30 days, Mr. Trump has dominated the conversation so heavily on the social network, that no other candidate has come close to reaching him, even for a day. Read More »

In the 2012 election, Las Vegas casino king Sheldon Adelson plowed about $93 million into groups outside the presidential campaigns, mostly to buoy Republicans Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. Texas leveraged buyout pioneer Harold Simmons lavished nearly $27 million on groups largely helping Mr. Romney, according to a Center for Responsive Politics tally of top contributors.

In the 2016 race, the biggest donor so far to the biggest super PAC – the $103 million juggernaut backing Republican Jeb Bush – is a Cuban-American Miami billionaire, Miguel “Mike” Fernandez, who made his fortune buying and selling health-care companies. He gave $3 million to the Right to Rise super PAC. Read More »

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Donald Trump said there was no cap in the amount of money he would be willing to put into his campaign for the Republican nomination for president if his message continues to resonate with voters.

Speaking at a free-wheeling press conference following a rally in this city east of Des Moines, Mr. Trump also attacked Republican rivals Jeb Bush and Scott Walker and Democrat Hillary Clinton with accusations that they were beholden to wealthy donors. Read More »

It’s a surprising race already, so WSJ’s politics reporter Reid Epstein sat down to answer questions about the candidates in a Facebook Q&A. Below are some of the top questions, along with the answers. Read More »

When Ohio Gov. John Kasich sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1999, he eventually abandoned his bid with the lament that George W. Bush, with his well-known name and his well-financed campaign, had sucked all the oxygen out of the room.

Fast forward 16 years and Mr. Kasich is facing off against another Bush with a formidable fundraising machine. Additionally, and perhaps more problematically, Mr. Kasich is competing for airtime and attention with Donald Trump. Read More »

John McCain is a war hero. The overwhelming majority of immigrants from Mexico are not rapists. And it’s time for Donald Trump to go home.

None of these sentences should be particularly difficult for a Republican presidential candidate to say out loud. But while the contenders for the GOP nomination (appropriately) rushed to Sen. McCain’s defense this weekend, the question remains: Why did they hesitate to forcefully criticize Mr. Trump during the weeks he was attacking immigrants rather than war veterans? Read More »

“I was a governor who refused to go along with that establishment. I wasn’t a member of the club, and that made all the difference,” Mr. Bush said, according to his prepared remarks given at Florida State University in Tallahassee. “Should I win this election, you will not find me deferring to the settled ways of ‘Mount Washington,’ either.” Read More »

Something strange has happened to the Republican presidential field since Donald Trump joined it a month ago: Mr. Trump and Jeb Bush are rising. Everyone else is falling in the polls, or seems stuck in place. Read More »

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